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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| db72384 | Incoming!" yelled Poseidon. They shifted-as much as they could in the cramped space-and Rocky landed in their midst. "This is not a baby," Hades noticed "I think it's a rock." He was observant that way." -- | Rick Riordan | ||
| dfadf36 | I stepped forward. Call me old-fashioned, but I wanted to keep his focus on me and not Annabeth. I think it's polite for a guy to protect his girlfriend from instant incineration. | humor | Rick Riordan | |
| 73b5544 | It always disappointed me when mortals put themselves first and failed to see the big picture--the importance of putting me first | Rick Riordan | ||
| 8f932fa | You never know!" Neith snapped. "The point is, I'll survive the apocalypse. I can live off the land!" She jabbed a finger at me. "Did you know the palm tree has six different edible parts?" "Um--" "And I'll never be bored," Neith continued, "since I'm also the goddess of weaving. I have enough twine for a millennium of macrame!" I had no reply, as I wasn't sure what macrame was." | macrame palm-tree weaving land goddess rick-riordan | Rick Riordan | |
| e252e9a | Watching him lumber back toward the apartment building, I got so mad I did something I can't explain. As Gabe reached the doorway, I made the hand gesture I'd seen Grover make on the bus, a sort of warding-off-evil gesture, a clawed hand over my heart, then a shoving movement toward Gabe. The screen door slammed shut so hard it whacked him in the butt and sent him flying up the stair case as if he'd been shot from a cannon. Maybe it was jus.. | Rick Riordan | ||
| cb1d55c | Peabody, you're an investigative slut. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 3c26ffc | You can't protect other people, however hard you try. | Gail Honeyman | ||
| 8a8b34f | Relationship gurus always said that an attraction based on friendship and mutual respect was far more likely to stay the course - and the bastards were right. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 09763d7 | What was this power, this insidious threat, this invisible gun to her head that controlled her life . . . this terror of being called names? She had stayed a virgin so she wouldn't be called a tramp or a slut; had married so she wouldn't be called an old maid; faked orgasms so she wouldn't be called frigid; had children so she wouldn't be called barren; had not been a feminist because she didn't want to be called queer and a man hater; neve.. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| 4181f31 | Men can imagine their own deaths, they can see them coming, and the mere though of impending death acts like an aphrodisiac. A dog or rabbit doesn't behave like that. Take birds -- in a lean season they cut down on the eggs, or they won't mate at all. They put their energy into staying alive themselves until times get better. But human beings hope they can stick their souls into someone else, some new version of themselves, and live on fore.. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 9e2c01b | Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were. It hasn't happened this morning, either. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 81b775d | Quiet anger frightens me. The drunks, the idiots, the ones that rage easily - them I can handle. I know when to step out of their way. It's the ones that hold the anger in, the men that think about what they do and how they do it, that scare me. They're the ones that cause damage. | dare-you-to | Katie McGarry | |
| 54c81ee | A beautiful battle is one you don't have to fight | red-hand mat-cauthon mat | Robert Jordan | |
| 2fc6747 | An army of the people is invincible! | people commie prolitariat soviet mao red-army revolution communism | Mao Zedong | |
| 297091e | They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse. | D.H. Lawrence | ||
| e0291fc | Me? Oh, intellectually I believe in having a good heart, a chirpy penis, a lively intelligence, and the courage to say 'shit!' in front of a lady. | D.H. Lawrence | ||
| 2010d03 | We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do--we do it all the time. | Alice Munro | ||
| c6dfbf4 | Isn't it only through laughter that we become one with the gods and thus can endure life and can overcome all the horror and waste and suffering here on earth? Like tonight, watching all those brave men meet their fate here, on this shore, on this gentle night, through a ordained a thousand lifetimes ago, or perhaps even one. Isn't it only through laughter we can stay human? | James Clavell | ||
| f26fe04 | I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up 'incredibly beautiful' in the dictionary there would be a picture of you. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| f3d2963 | You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.) (You are wrong. Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.) (And you are deserving of shame?) (I am. I am trying to tell you.) 'We were stupid,' he said, 'because we believed in things.' 'Why is this stupid?' 'Because there are not things to believe in.' (Love?) (There is no love. Only the end.. | family god love shame | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| 058f2dc | Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in all of human history. In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at once, they couldn't, because there aren't enough skulls! | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| b89f43a | Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what were doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children? | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| e65ad35 | I turned the pages so fast. And I suppose I was, in my mindless way, looking for a something, version of myself, a heroine I could slip inside as one might a pair of favourite shoes. | Ian McEwan | ||
| 903e997 | Who you get, and how it works out- there's so much luck involved, as well as the million branching consequences of your conscious choice of a mate, that no one and no amount of talking can untangle it if it turns out unhappily. | Ian McEwan | ||
| 69a7e93 | Beauty in the European sense has always had a premeditated quality to it. We've always had an aesthetic intention and a long-range plan. That's what enabled western man to spend decades building a Gothic cathedral or a Renaissance piazza. The beauty of New York rests on a completely different base. It's unintentional. It arose independent of human designt, like a stalagmitic cavern. Forms which in themselves quite ugly turn up fortuitously,.. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 4229800 | lwqt lnsny l ysyr fy shkl dy'ry bl ytqdm fy khT mstqym. mn hn, l ymkn llnsn 'n ykwn s`ydan l'n ls`d@ rGb@ fy ltkrr. | sex psychological political religion love philosophy جنس friedrich-nietzche milan-kundera neitzsche اجتماع كائن-لا-تحتمل-خفته ميلان-كونديرا نيتشه علم-نفس فلسفة فلسفة-حياة religion-and-philoshophy حب philosophy-of-life friedrich-nietzsche sociology novel psychology | ميلان كونديرا | |
| 024177f | A while back, when Dick & Barry & I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you *are* like, Barry proposed the idea of a questionnaire for potential partners, a 2 or 3 page multiple-choice document that covered all the music/film/TV/book bases. It was intended: a) to dispense with awkward conversation, and b) to prevent a chap from leaping into bed with someone who might, at a later date, turn out to have every Julio Igle.. | relationships music movies | Nick Hornby | |
| 4df39b2 | There's nothing you can't fuck up if you try hard enough. | Nick Hornby | ||
| ab513f8 | You must pray to God for forgiveness because I can give you none | katherine-parr innocent-traitor | Alison Weir | |
| ac89320 | Do what I will never do. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| 9940e6e | I don't think jealousy has much of a connection with real, objective conditions. Like if you're fortunate you're not jealous, but if life hasn't blessed you, you are jealous. Jealousy doesn't work that way. It's more like a tumor secretly growing inside us that gets bigger and bigger, beyond all reason. Even if you find out it's there, there's nothing you can do to stop it. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| e9e6aa0 | All you have to do is wait," I explained. "Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything by force, just watch the drift of things. Make an effort to cast a fair eye on everything. If you do that, you just naturally know what to do. But everyone's always too busy. They're too talented, their schedules are too full. They're too interested in themselves to think about what's fair." | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 8d233a5 | But intolerant,narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host,change form,and continue to thrive. They're a lost cause, and I don't want anyone like that coming in here. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 06463ad | It's not as if our lives are simply divided into light and dark. There's a shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does. | understanding | Haruki Murakami | |
| 0b5e2da | Maybe she thought the garbage and rocks in your head were interesting. But finally, garbage is garbage and rocks are rocks. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 7eb5a3e | I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you. | truths | Larry McMurtry | |
| 913b1ce | if you can't keep him interested, that's your fault. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 9f4ae66 | I don't want to be one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so | friendship life where-rainbows-end | Cecelia Ahern | |
| ba240ea | think about it: Romeo and Juliet bucked the system, and look where it got them. Superman has the hots for Lois Lane, when the better match, of course, would be with Wonder Woman. | superman romeo-and-juliet | Jodi Picoult | |
| a8971df | I think there are two different oceans - the one that plays with you in the summer, and the one that gets so mad in the winter. | two-faced-people | Jodi Picoult | |
| 7f47bc1 | I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| cbd22f8 | The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| eaf3909 | Love's a tidal wave," she says. "Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask. "No. Because it sucks you under and you drown." "But sometimes," I point out, "it's the only thing that keeps you afloat." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| e42075f | Take off your shirt," I said, sitting up and pulling at the hem of the garment. "Why?" he asked, but sat up and obliged. I knelt in front of him, admiring his naked body. "Because I want to look at you," I said. He was beautifully made, with long, graceful bones and flat muscles that flowed smoothly from the curves of chest and shoulder to the slight concavities of belly and thigh. He raised his eyebrows. "Well then, fair's fair. Take off y.. | jamie-fraser | Diana Gabaldon |